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Aitabdel Salem walked into a Zara store in Manhattan on Nov. 21, 2014, and reportedly tried to steal a coat. When a police officer confronted him, Salem allegedly attacked the officer, and for that he was thrown in jail and given a $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors couldn’t put enough evidence together to indict Salem, so his bail dropped all the way down to $2, a buck for each of two minor offenses he was still charged with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The path out of jail was now simple enough, but nobody told him about the change.<\/p>\n

So Salem sat on Rikers Island, behind bars for around five months without knowing he was 200 pennies away from freedom, according to The New York Daily News<\/i><\/a><\/i>.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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